Anyone go from Std/Silver 6 to Std/Silver 7? If so, deciding factors?

Kudos for doing research before buying! I was a recently new customer, and didn't know about all the information on the community forum, before making my purchase.

I didn't go from Silver/6 to Silver/7, but will say that one of the unexpected hidden gems for me was the L7 course tool.

I didn't learn about it until after I upgraded, but I'm glad I purchased the L7 library, because the resources which are bundled in the libraries are part of the reading material for the L7 course tool plans.

Silver might only come with 2 Mobile Ed courses, but many of these other course tool plans are free, as long as you have the corresponding books in your library to accompany the reading plan. I believe that there are over 200 courses included with the course tool, but some of them only require certain library resources, and won't require any Mobile Ed purchase.

The actual number of course tool plans visible to you may be lower, as certain single-resource courses are hidden, when you don't own that particular content.

You might want to price out subscribing to the Logos Now membership (instead of buying the features or a Silver library+features base package), then simply purchase the L7 Silver library. While you won't own the L7 features, you'll have access to them as long as you continue your LN subscription, and the additional discount may make it worth subscribing instead of buying the features.

Cynthia Tucker said:

I always change the view to "New to You" and see how many of those resources I really want. If what I want costs more than buying the complete package, I go ahead and buy the complete package. Otherwise, I will just purchase only those resources I want.

My strategy, like yours, begins with look at "New to You". However, what I do is to go through all of the resources and features in the package and assign them personal values, roughly equivalent to how much I would be willing to bid for them on CP. (I make exceptions for resources that I have already decided to buy, which I value at roughly their present cost-to-me.) That leads to the majority of resources being valued (by and for me) in the $0-2 range, with more in the $3-5 range, and some significantly higher than that. I tend to intentionally undervalue some resources I intend to use, knowing that I am assigning positive values to resources that I will likely never use at all. I also keep in mind that most of the stuff Faithlife sells that I'd like to own costs (at regular price) more than I want to spend on it. I do all of my valuation in CAD, which means that I'm working in smaller increments than any Americans doing the same thing in USD (at least without attributing values that aren't in whole dollars, which I don't do).

At the end of it all, I add up all of those values and compare the total value to the actual cost-to-me (in CAD) of the base package. If the value-to-me is higher than the cost-to-me, I consider the package worth my money. Only then am I willing to consider buying it--looking at my budgeting, other packages/bundles/stuff I'm interested in, whether the present price is likely to go up or down, the urgency-to-me of acquiring any of the resources in the package, etc.

This process allows me to buy things I would otherwise never do--like buy an expensive, public domain commentary set that's written in a style I don't like by people from a theological perspective deliberately antithetical to my own--because in my own mind I'm not actually allocating much $$$ to it at all.